December 21

1898 - Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium.

I don’t pretend to know much about this element, but I do know Marie was one of the most important women in history - and her genius helped change the world.

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69 – Vespasian, Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus, a gruff-spoken general of humble origins, entered Rome and was adopted as Emperor by the Roman Senate.

Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian Dynasty, and one of the more decent Roman Emperors. He is noted for his mildness (by the standards of the time), sense of justice, and the amount of money he spent on Rome’s public works:  Including the construction of a new forum, the Temple of Peace, public baths, and the Colosseum.

1494 - A new sickness broke out in Naples: Syphilis.

The Euros gave the American Indians smallpox, and the Indians gave the Euros syphilis...The Euro’s suffered, but the Indians perished.

Neither incidence of disease transfer was intentional, and it wasn't the first time biological warfare was waged on an virgin population, but it was brutally successful in aiding the European conquest of the New World.

1620 - 103 Pilgrims aboard the 'Mayflower' went ashore for the first time at present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts.

This ended a 63-day voyage establishing an English settlement on the North American continent...The world would never be the same.

1879 - Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born.

Happy birthday, you sick bastard...He's better known as Joseph Stalin.

1939 - Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich named Adolf Eichmann leader of 'Referat IV B,' the group in charge of transport of Jews for the 'Final Solution.'

What a miserable trio of psychopaths...Any one of the three could make the claim for being 'Top Nut of the Reich,' but I’d put my money on Heydrich.

1945 - 'Old Blood and Guts' died: General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, died from injuries suffered not in battle but in a freak car accident.

What a terrible way for the old warrior to die...All of his previous deaths came in battle (with Hannibal, Caesar, etc), and this peacetime death will hopefully be made up for in his future battles.

He believed it, so I see no reason not to honor it.

Also, it is important to note his nickname is misleading, because there were very few WWII commanders who had a lower casualty rate among HIS OWN TROOPS...Patton did cause plenty of casualties for his enemies, however.

1971 - The U.N. Security Council elected former Nazi, Kurt Waldheim as Secretary General.

You read that right: 'FORMER NAZI as SECRETARY GENERAL' of the U.N.

What a complete joke.

1991 - Eleven of the twelve former Soviet republics proclaimed the birth of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the death of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

It’s somewhat ironic the great Hell State met its final day on Stalin’s birthday.

2000 - The final U.S. election results showed Al Gore with 50,996,116 votes and George W. Bush with 50,456,169. Gore led by over 500,000 votes but lost to Bush by one electoral college vote.

This popular vote nonsense is for the idiots in this country who have had their minds altered by the media, or were never properly educated in American civics and history in the first place.

The Founding Fathers set up the Electoral College for a reason, and that reason was to protect the nation from being run by the huge states...The system has always worked, and will in the future.  As long as the revolutionary Leftists are kept from absolute control of the government and the courts, that is.

2000 - Ted Turner offered to make up the $35 million difference between dues the U.S. owed the U.N. and the amount Congress was willing to pay.

The U.S. should exit from the U.N. and let Ted and any of his Socialist buddies fund 100% of the world's largest Circle Jerk Group.